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Iceland fisheries minister hints she may pull the plug on whaling

February 9, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

But whaling baron Kristján Loftsson, 80,  will not go down without a fight REYKJAVIK, Iceland––Iceland minister of food,  agriculture,  and fisheries Svandis Svavarsdottir on February 4,  2022 indicated in a guest column for the newspaper and news web site Morgunblaðið that she may pull the plug on the nearly moribund Icelandic whaling industry. But Kristján Loftsson, […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Iceland, Laws & politics, Marine life, Scandinavia, USA, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife Tagged With: Hvalur, Kitty Block, Kristján Loftsson, Merritt Clifton, Paul Watson, Svandis Svavarsdottir

Black humane history found in great-grandpa’s attic near a town called Ark

January 15, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Letters and a map document humane & racial justice movements that pointed the way for Martin Luther King Jr. ARK, Virginia––Bus driver Alan Lemon,  59,  hoped to find antiques that might be sold online in 2018 when he and a friend decided to explore the attic of his great grandfather John W. Lemon’s long abandoned […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Animism & Santeria, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Iceland, Religion & philosophy, USA Tagged With: Alan Lemon, Eric H. Hansen, Francis Rowley, Frederick Rivers Barnwell, George Thorndike Angell, John W. Lemon, Merritt Clifton, Richard Carroll, Seymour Carroll, William Alan Swallow

COVID-19 skins fur trade: Ireland bans fur farming; Finland vaccinates mink

October 27, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Ireland becomes 15th European Union nation to ban or phase out the mink industry             DUBLIN, HELSINKI––Responding to continuing discoveries of the COVID-19 coronavirus in factory-farmed mink,  the government of the Republic of Ireland has elected to ban fur faming. The Finnish Food Authority,  by contrast,  is experimentally vaccinating farmed mink in hopes fur demand […]

Filed Under: Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Finland, Fur & leather, Horses & Farmed Animals, Ireland, Isles, Scandinavia Tagged With: Charlie McConalogue, John Carmody, Merritt Clifton

The best news of 2021 for North Atlantic seals, whales, & dolphins

October 3, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Young Newfoundlanders rescue seven stranded pilot whales near scene of “A Whale For The Killing” EMBREE, Newfoundland––The best news in 2021 both for harp seals and gray seals in Atlantic Canada and for pilot whales and Atlantic white-sided dolphins in the Faroe Islands,  2,000 miles east across the North Atlantic,  might in the long run […]

Filed Under: Denmark, Europe, Faroe Islands, Feature Home Bottom, Marine life, Scandinavia, Seals, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife Tagged With: Farley Mowat, Faroe Islands, Meg Roberts, Merritt Clifton, Mitchell Gillingham, Olavur Sjurdarberg, Ryan Collier, Ryan Knot

Is mink farming “too dirty to die”? Or is pending bill the coup-de-grace?

August 8, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Some in the U.S. mink industry see COVID-19 as a growth opportunity  WASHINGTON D.C.––Will the COVID-19 delta variant finally kill mink farming in the U.S.,  after COVID-19 in all forms has killed more than 633,000 Americans? Or will HR 4310,  dubbed the MINKS Act as acronym for “Minks in Narrowly Kept Spaces Are Superspreaders Act,”  […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, China, Denmark, Eastern Europe, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, France, Fur & leather, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Mediterranean, Netherlands, Poland, Scandinavia, Spain, Uncategorized Tagged With: Joan Schaffner, Karen Manci, Kate Golden, Kitty Block, Meg Kinnard, Merritt Clifton, Nancy Mace, Rosa DeLauro, Sara Amundson

Marine mammal activist Ben White,  53,  dies of abdominal cancer

July 14, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Long problematic career Ben White,  53,  died on July 30,  2005,  in Friday Harbor, Washington,  after a six-month struggle against abdominal cancer. White “cut open dolphin-holding nets in Japan,  scaled buildings to hang anti-fur banners, jumped in front of naval ships in Hawaii to stop sonar tests,  and slept atop old-growth trees to protest logging,” […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Europe, Faroe Islands, Humane history, Iceland, Marine life, Marine mammals, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (animals), Religion & philosophy, Scandinavia, USA, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife Tagged With: Bill Wewer, Clair George, David Howitt, Feld Entertainment, Kathleen Marquardt, Merritt Clifton, Paul Watson, Rick Spill, Rod Coronado

Second Finn dog study conflates defensive behavior with aggression

May 5, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

But the Finn study does not discount the influence of genetics on aggression             HELSINKI, Finland––The same Finn researchers who in March 2020 published a study strongly affirming the importance of breeding in dog behavior have in May 2020 published a second analysis of the same data which––at a glance––argues just the opposite. The second […]

Filed Under: Breeding, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Finland, Scandinavia, Training Tagged With: César Araujo, Emma Hakanen, Hannes Lohi, Jenni Puurunen, Katriina Tiira, Merritt Clifton, Milla Salonen, Salla Mikkola, Sini Sulkama

Fish farming foe Kurt Oddekalv, no bunny-hugger, dies trying to save dog

February 4, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

The dog died too Fish farming foe Kurt Willy Oddekalv,  63,  on January 11,  2020 died from drowning and hypothermia suffered in attempting to rescue his daughter’s dog Kompis,  who had fallen through ice on a lake near their home in Kalandseidet, Bergen, Norway. The dog Kompis was found dead nearby. As a sergeant in the […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal rights & welfare, Disease, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Fish, Food, Food security, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Marine life, Meat issues, Norway, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Religion & philosophy, Scandinavia, Wildlife Tagged With: anti-vaxxer, Jens Stoltenberg, Joseph Mercola, Merritt Clifton, Vince McDonagh

End to Irish & Greek mink farming expected after Danish & Dutch culls

November 22, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Irish chief medical officer calls for mink cull as “a matter of urgency”             LIMERICK, COPENHAGEN––Not even Guinness bottle caps are flipping,  let alone champagne corks popping,  in celebration of the anticipated imminent end of mink breeding in Ireland,  Denmark,  the Netherlands,  Italy,  Poland, France,  and perhaps even Greece and Spain. Mink massacres underway in […]

Filed Under: Denmark, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Fur & leather, Horses & Farmed Animals, Ireland, Isles, Scandinavia Tagged With: John Carmody, Merritt Clifton, Mette Frederiksen, Mogens Jensen, Redmond O’Hanlon, Tony Holohan

Mink ranching survives in Denmark despite risky COVID-19 mutation

November 12, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Danish mink industry was to be liquidated from fear that COVID-19 mutation could neutralize vaccines in development             COPENHAGEN, Denmark––The Danish mink industry,  on the verge of liquidation as of November 4,  2020 to control a COVID-19 coronavirus mutation,  appears to have politically mobilized to win a reprieve––for the mink ranchers,  however,  not the mink […]

Filed Under: Central Europe, Denmark, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Finland, Fur & leather, Horses & Farmed Animals, Netherlands, Scandinavia, Sweden, Wildlife, World Tagged With: Allan Randrup Thomsen, Arnon Shimshony, Francois Balloux, Kare Molbak, Karl Stahl, Merritt Clifton, Mette Frederiksen

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